Boron · B
industrial_mineral · primary
Bottom line
Boron sits on 1 federal critical-minerals list; mine supply is concentrated (HHI 0.26, 2024), led by 🇹🇷 Turkey at 44% of output. US net import reliance: E (2025). Prices fell 6% over the past year (+8%/yr over 4y).
At a glance
Headline indicators
Price · 2025
540dollars per metric ton
USGS MCS (Price, average unit value of c)
Price trend
-6% 1Y
+8%/yr · 4Y CAGR
US net import reliance · 2025
E
Mine production HHI
0.26
Concentrated · 2024
From ore to use
lifecycle flow
- 01Reserves
1.1Bt
Turkey leads · 87% share
- 02Production
5.9Mt
Turkey top · 2024
- 03Trade
655.0Kt
net exporter · 2025
- 04Stocks
-
- 05Consumption
-
Coverage
Data coverage notes
- no dataNo commodity-decomposed recycling data - No USGS MCS Fig13 scrap rows. EU WEEE / battery EOL flows (Phase 6.1.1) are country-keyed only - see country profiles.
- datedMaterial-flow analysis is historical - All 4 material-flow records date to 2000 or earlier (Yale STAF era). They describe the anthropogenic cycle of that period, not today's system.
- datedEnvironmental footprint is dated - Cradle-to-gate intensity rows carry a 2008 inventory vintage (Nuss & Eckelman-era LCA). Current-process footprints are not yet in scope.
- datedExport-restriction inventory ends 2020 - The OECD industrial-raw-materials inventory (vendored snapshot) reports HS-line measures only through 2020; restrictions enacted since are not reflected in the measure table.
- narrowConsumption geography is single-economy (United States) - Reported consumption covers one economy only - the world usage split must be read from trade flows, not from a consumption table.
Methodology
How strata reads a commodity
The eight-stage lens, the observed-vs-estimated membrane, stage-honest supply, per-stage concentration, ownership resolution and the demand lens - the full method is illustrated live on copper, nickel and lithium.
Provenance
Where this data comes from
- BGS World Mineral Statistics
midstream_components_seed
ownership_control_seed
sec_edgar_ex96_pdf
- USGS DS-140 (constant 1998 USD)
- USGS DS-140 (nominal)
- USGS MCS (Price, average unit value of c)
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries World Data (legacy wide format, 2023-2025 vintages)
- USGS Minerals Yearbook Vol III, reference year 2019
usgs_mrds_2016
usgs_world_phosphate
usmin_critical_deposits
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